Have you ever been so excited about something and then when your least expecting it things take a turn and you find yourself feeling discouraged? This happens a lot in our faith. It can happen for different reasons. Sometimes it is something called Spiritual warfare and sometimes it is simply God changing your course toward something different. With prayer and careful discernment of a situation it can be easy to tell the difference. Either way God is good, He knows what He is doing, and we can trust Him! God's will always prevails and we must not allow the enemy and his lies discourage us.
A few days ago I posted some pictures on here of green sprouts that were starting to peek out in my yard. I talked about how encouraged I was by the fact that during this hard cold winter full of deadness these little shoots were coming up and showing new life. God was working even when I could not see Him, and the new green leaves popping out were signs of His Goodness coming through. But check out these pictures taken just a few days later!
Even in those times when we can not physically "see" what God is doing we have to trust him. The enemy is always out to try to distract us from seeing and trusting God's good work. Don't let him win the battle. God always has the victory and nothing can stop His good work....not even an April 18th snow storm! I trust that He STILL has plans to bring up pretty flowers underneath that snow, and we can trust that He still plans good for us even when we can't see what it is He is doing.
..in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8: 37-39
